YACHT ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Selsey, Sussex. At 10,37 on the morning of the 21st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht, later identified as the Joanna of Shoreham, was in difficulties two to three miles south-west of the look-out post. A fresh south-west wind was blowing with a rough sea. At 10.45 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched on a flooding tide. On reaching the position given the life-boat crew saw no sign of the Joanna, but a further message gave the yacht's position as some two miles south-south-west of the life-boat.The life-boat found the Joanna, whose crew had meanwhile managed to set a jib sail and make rough repairs to her engine; the exhaust pipe had broken away and cooling watei was being pumped in. The owner of the Joanna told the coxswain he thought his boat's engine would hold out but asked to be escorted to Littlehampton. The coxswain agreed, and when the yacht had reached Littlehampton safely the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 4.45..